Asian Popular Culture

Introduction: Asian Popular Culture - The Global (Dis)continuity  Part 1: The Dominance of Global Continuity: Cultural Localization and Adaptation  1. Asian Disneylands: One Region, Two Modernities  2. Comic Travels: Disney Publishing in the People's Republic of China  3. When Chinese Kids meet Harry Potter: Translating Consumption and Middle-class Identification  4. Saving Faces for Magazine Covers: New Forms of Transborder Visuality in Urban China  5. Cultural Consumption and Masculinity: A Case Study of GQ Magazine Covers in Taiwan  Part 2: Global Discontinuity: The Local Absorption of Global Culture  6. Un-localized and Un-Globalized Subculture: English language Independent Music in Singapore  7. "Only Mix, Never Been Cut": the Localized Production of Jamaican Music in Thailand  8. Consuming Online Games in Taiwan: Global Games and Local Market  9. The Rise of the Korean Cinema in the Inbound/Outbound Globalization  Part 3: Cultural Domestication: A New Form of Global Continuity  10. Globalization of Pokemon and Pocket Capitalism  11. Playing the Global Game: Japan Brand and Globalization  Part 4: China as a Rising Market: Cultural Antagonism and Globalization  12. China's New Creative Strategy: Cultural Soft Power and New Markets  13. Renationalizing Hong Kong Cinema: The Gathering Force of the Mainland Market

Anthony Y.H. Fung is Director and Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the co-author of the book New Television Globalisation and the East Asian Cultural Imagination, and author of Global Capital, Local Culture: Localization of Transnational Media Corporations in China.